--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/13/07 11:04:45 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Nope. Deuteronomy describes a theocracy, not a democracy. The founding > fathers wanted nothing to do with a theocracy. > > > > Sorry our laws, both criminal and civil are modeled "based" on much of what > is in Deuteronomy.
No. They are not, as is illustrated in the following brief in the Judge Moore case: ---Forty-one law professors and legal historians weighed in on a lawsuit challenging Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore's display of the Ten Commandments in the state Judicial Building in Montgomery. The scholars were brought together by Steven K. Green, former legal director at Americans United and now law professor at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon. [...] The brief notes that the U.S. Constitution lacks even "a perfunctory or formalistic reference to God" and says during the debate over ratification of that document, delegates discussed Roman law, British law and the laws of other European nations but "as can best be determined, no delegate ever mentioned the Ten Commandments or the Bible." [...] http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200306/ai_n9283024 > No where have I said our government is a duplicate of what > is in Deuteronomy. Have you read it? > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour >
